{"id":7388,"date":"2020-10-10T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:06:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:06:49","slug":"175-doctors-say-biden-trump-debate-in-miami-can-be-held-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/175-doctors-say-biden-trump-debate-in-miami-can-be-held-safely\/","title":{"rendered":"“175 doctors say Biden-Trump debate in Miami can be held safely\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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175 doctors tell commission Biden-Trump debate in Miami can be held safely<\/a><\/p>\n

Hundreds of physicians have written to the Commission on Presidential Debates saying they believe it\u2019s safe for President Trump to participate in Thursday\u2019s debate with Joe Biden in Miami, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The debate\u2019s organizing body on Thursday announced the show-down would be made virtual for safety reasons after the president contracted COVID-19 \u2014 a move that angered the commander in chief who in turn announced he\u00a0would boycott the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, as many as 175 medical doctors from across the nation have written to the commission saying an in-person debate would be safe as long as social distancing guidelines were followed by both Trump and Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a family medicine physician who has treated many COVID patients, both in hospital and in the outpatient setting. I am requesting that the Commission reverse its decision and hold an in-person debate,\u201d wrote Dr. Joseph T. Dougherty, of Pittsburgh, in one letter obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on science, data, and epidemiology, the debate can, and should, be held safely in person and it is essential to do so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Many of the doctors cited guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which states that a person infected with COVID-19 can safely be around other people 10 days after their symptoms first appeared.<\/p>\n

The debate, slated for Oct. 15, would take place 13 days after the president announced he and the first lady had\u00a0tested positive for the virus<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

175 doctors tell commission Biden-Trump debate in Miami can be held safely Hundreds of physicians have written to the Commission on Presidential Debates saying they believe it\u2019s safe for President Trump to participate in Thursday\u2019s debate with Joe Biden in Miami, The Post has learned. The debate\u2019s organizing body on Thursday announced the show-down would … Continue reading “175 doctors say Biden-Trump debate in Miami can be held safely\u00a0<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,53,13,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}